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600 grams of Bread
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Pink guilloche underprint on a light background with a central rosette vignette. Cyrillic inscriptions in brown give the voucher title at top, quantity at centre, and validity month and year below. A red serial number appears at the bottom centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | КУПОН ЗА ХЛЕБ 600 грама ДЕЦЕМБАР 1993. {serial} |
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Issued in Transnistria during the acute shortages of the early post-Soviet collapse, these cardboard and paper "commodity coupons" denominated in physical goods rather than currency units were a practical response to hyperinflation that had rendered the ruble essentially useless for daily transactions. The bread coupon system allowed authorities to ration staples at fixed quantities while the monetary system remained in freefall.
Transnistria's parallel coupon economy of 1993 is one of the few documented post-Soviet cases where a breakaway state temporarily denominated circulating instruments in kilograms rather than monetary units.